Report Reflects Excellent Tap Water Quality

Report Reflects Excellent Tap Water Quality

Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents will open mailboxes next week to find the Water Quality Report, which summarizes the quality of our community’s tap water in calendar year 2009. Charlotte’s drinking water once again meets and exceeds all drinking water standards, and Utilities had no water quality violations.

Highlights of this year’s Water Quality Report
• At the level of treatment Utilities provides, Charlotte-Mecklenburg tap water is 10 times less likely to have contamination compared with federal standards.
• The levels of the few substances detected in the water were well below federal drinking water limits and posed no health threat.
• Utilities test for more than 150 different substances and conducted more than 150,000 tests on drinking water in 2009.

The EPA requires large water systems to produce and mail this report directly to customers. In addition to the results of water quality tests, readers also will find details about Charlotte’s drinking water sources, the treatment process and some commonly asked questions.

“Providing clean, safe drinking water at an affordable price is what we’re all about,” said Interim Director Barry Gullet. “Our customers pay much less than one cent per gallon, and they can be confident that the water delivered to their faucet is high quality.”

Customers can find the report—along with a list of monitored substances not detected in the tap water—at www.cmutilities.com. A Spanish version of the report will run in the May 27 issue of Que Pasa newspaper.